Monday, May 12, 2008

Movies and Trout Fishing...

Friday night I rented four movies, watching three at night and then one in the morning. The first movie was Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. The main reason I watched this film was that it was set in Gunnison but was obviously filmed in Canada. Gunnison, as portrayed in the film, is much bigger, with actual yellow taxi service and a full, large metropolitan hospital. Much of action in the last part of film revolves around the citizens trying to escape a larger city, nothing like the reality of actually living here. There was even large ferns growing in the pine forests but in the end Gunnison was destroyed by a large (presumably atomic) bomb.
The second film was There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for this role, more overacting but I still laugh about the Eli, the preacher yelling, "I am a false prophet and God is superstition", and then Day-Lewis yelling back "I... drink... your... milkshake!"
The final movie I watched on Friday night was Juno, which I found entertaining and enjoyable and I liked Jason Bateman's character courage (or dickheadness) to not want to be a father and get out of controlling marriage. I saw much of my ex-wife in Jennifer Gardner's character and how I felt when I was married to her. The next morning I watched the final movie , Before the Devil Knows Your Dead with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei. Good Tomei nudity not so much with Philip Seymour Hoffman. The larger context of flawed human beings trying to short-cut their problems with horrible unintended consequences, is the flow of the film.
On Sunday I went to the same Blue Mesa Reservoir fishing area Dad and I went to last weekend. The water level has risen a couple of more inches since last week. The weather was nice but the wind was still chilly. The first line I threw out into the water with salmon eggs, I caught a seven-inch trout which I threw back into the lake. About a half of an hour later, I caught a 15 inch rainbow trout, which I kept for dinner. I caught and released one more trout before leaving for the day. The wind started kicking up the sand on the lake. I tried to take some better photos of the fish but here is one I took of myself holding up my dinner looking like a dopey dipsh*t.

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